Special Performance: Songs from the War
Date: Nov 7
8:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Where: Level 3 Atrium
A special evening with the renowned Peter Halley and Shelley Neville, founding members of Spirit of Newfoundland Productions. Join us for a moving night of music, nostalgia and storytelling, featuring wartime-era songs, in recognition of Remembrance Day. Selections include timeless classics: Danny Boy, I'll Be Seeing You, Lili Marlene and It's a Long Way to Tipperary among other beloved songs.
Tickets: $30 plus HST. 10% discount for Rooms Members. Get your tickets online or by calling (709)757-8090.
About the Musicians:
Shelley Neville and Peter Halley have been awarded the honorary Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal and are proud cast members of the Gander production of the Broadway musical Come From Away. They have sung for the Queen in Bonavista, as well as for American Presidents and Canadian Prime Ministers, and in almost every nook and cranny in Newfoundland and Labrador. They are long-standing and beloved members of our province’s musical scene.
Image: B3-21 1st Newfoundland Regiment Drum and Bugle Band, Aldershot, 1915, Provincial Archives photograph collection.
Events & Programs
Join us each day for an interpretive guided tour in one of our galleries. From the story of the Cod fishery to visiting a current art exhibition to a Family Rainbow tour, there is something for everyone.
Each tour is approximately 30 – 40 minutes and is included in the cost of admission. Free for Rooms members.
Fishing for Cod
For centuries, fishing for cod has played a vital role in the lives of the peoples of Newfoundland and Labrador. Generations of fishing men, women and children made use of the land and sea to sustain them and spent their lives “making fish”.
Please join us for a conversation with Sophie Angnatok, an Inuk throat singer and drum dancer from Nain, Nunatsiavut.
Sophie has been practicing the art of throat-singing and traditional Inuit drumming for 20 years and plays an active role within her local urban Inuit community.
Learn about her love of Inuit culture, the knowledge she shares in the community, her relationship with The Rooms, and her experiences in the Inuit drum dance group, Kilautiup Songuninga (Strength of the Drum).
Sophie performed for the Canadian Prime Minister during the Truth and Reconciliation apology for Labradorimut, the Governor General of Canada, and the Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador. In 2024, she was the inaugural recipient of the Chris Brookes Memorial Award for “artists effecting positive change in the world”.
This is a free event but a ticket is required. Please reserve your free ticket online or by calling (709)757-8090.